The state Fire Marshal has granted the town of Jonesborough a certificate of occupancy for the McKinney Cultural Arts Center at Booker T. Washington School, allowing classes that were moved off-site in July to resume.

It was Eleanor Roosevelt who said, “it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” A plan is exactly what those involved with University Parkway Baptist Church’s Emergency Preparedness Fair, on Sept. 14 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., are promoting.